Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror Paperback / softback
by Bruce Holsinger
Paperback / softback
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President Bush was roundly criticized for likening America's antiterrorism measures to a "crusade" in 2001.
Far from just a gaffe, however, such medievalism has become a dominant paradigm for comprehending the identity and motivations of America's perceived enemy in the war on terror.
Yet as Bruce Holsinger argues here, this cloying post-9/11 rhetoric has served to obscure the more intricate ideological machinations of neomedievalism, the global idiom of the non-state actor: non-governmental organizations, transnational corporate militias, and terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda. "Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror" addresses the role of neomedievalism in contemporary politics.
While international-relations theorists promote neomedievalism as a model for understanding emergent modes of global sovereignty, neoconservatives exploit its conceptual slipperiness for their own tactical ends.
Holsinger concludes with a careful parsing of the Bush administration's torture memos, which enlist neomedievalism's model of feudal sovereignty on behalf of the abrogation of human rights.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:50 pages
- Publisher:Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
- Publication Date:01/07/2007
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- ISBN:9780976147596
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:50 pages
- Publisher:Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
- Publication Date:01/07/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780976147596